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A85735	A demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and therein of the Christian religion. Very usefull for the further satisfaction and confirmation of all good Christians; as likewise for the confutation and conviction of those that have a Jewish or atheisticall spirit in them. / Written by Richard Garbutt, Bachelour in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards preacher of the Gospel at Leeds in Yorshire [sic].	Garbutt, Richard.; Jackson, Nathaniel, d. 1662.; Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing G207; Thomason E1693_1; ESTC R202150	67,066	193

1 Peter 1.4 that fiery tryall whereof St. Peter speakes should have no power upon them should not drive them to impatience not to desist or desert their Evangelical callings but hold out 20 30 40 years together unto the death and in death Moses was a godly Saint and yet driven to a little impatience that he was weary of his calling through the vexful behaviour of the Jews If thou deale thus with me Numb 11.15 kill me I pray thee out of hand Elias was a godly Saint yet driven to a little impatience when the storme fell so fierce upon him It is enough now O Lord take away my life 1 Kings 19.4 for I am not better then my fathers Job was a Saint who like him and yet driven to a great deale of impatience when he opened his mouth and cursed his day Let the day perish wherein I was borne c. Job 3. for a whole Chapter together But where do we ever read that all the afflictions the world could heap upon them put the Apostles into any impatience or that their spirits were any whit broken or their hearts dejected with them nay it broke their hearts when others pityed them and would have had them favoured themselves in Christs sufferings What meane you to weep and breake my heart Act. 21.13 Act. 20.22.24 for I am ready not onely to be bound but also to dye c. And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem But none of these things move me neither count I my life deare unto my selfe c. And I take pleasure in infirmites c. 2 Cor. 12.10 whence could they have this patience nay this joy in all their tribulations but from the power of the Holy Ghost And therefore I marvell not that St. Paul should so often urge this for an evident proofe of the truth of his ministry his Apostleship his Gospel that he preached namely his patience and indefatigable enduring of all misery and all affliction for the Gospels sake 2 Cor. 6.4 and 11.23 c. Gal. 6.17 Col. 4.18 2 Cor. 4.7 and 10. In all things approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience c. And from henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus And Remember my bonds Well I will conclude this with his reasoning we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body That it may appeare that Jesus Christ is alive indeed by giving such strength and power to such a frail creature as Paul otherwise of himselfe was for that it is not to be understood of the life of glory to be manifested afterwards in the body but so as it is already expounded the drift and circumstances shew That the excellency of the power c. in our mortall body c. and because in the fourteenth verse he proceeds there to that sense Sixthly Grace of tenderest love and affection to the Salvation if they could of the whole world to the Salvation of those they never saw nor heard of before to the Salvation of those that it cost them many a long tedious journey to come into them to the Salvation of those that when they came among them gave them but cold entertainment even sought their death that came to bring them the word of life such love whence could they have it but from this power of the Holy Ghost Consider but how cold and back-ward men are in this business to build up one another even neighbour his neighbour and friend his freind in their Salvations and say if these men must not needs have been acted and moved with something in them more then flesh and blood that made them so zealous and earnest for the Salvation of the whole world of the unknowne world the remote world the injurious world that sought their deaths as much as they did their lives Take a scantling of this their earnest zeale and love to every Souls Salvation in St. Paul First In St. Pauls sollicitous care and feare nothing so full of care and feare for anothers good as love None so loving therefore as St. Paul that had such cares and fears and jealousies in his heart as touching others Salvations 2 Cor. 7.5 Without were fightings within were fears Within fears namely lest by some means men should be tempted and drawne away again from the faith Gal. 4.19 2 Cor. 11.2 and 28. Col. 2.1 And I am jealous over you with a godly jealousie And besides those things that are without that which cometh upon me dayly 1 Thes 3.1 the care of all the Churches And I wish you knew what great conflict namely of feare and care I have for you And for this cause when I could no longer forbeare namely for care and fear about you Secondly See it in St. Pauls wise and studious diligence by art and by industry 1 Col. 28. striving if he could to win every Soul Though I be free from all men yet have I made my self servant to all 1 Cor. 9.19 that I might gain the more that we may present every man perfect c. Nothing so painfull and devicefull of any course to speede as love Thirdly See it in St. Pauls earnest obtestations and entreaties that men would regard themselves and that which makes for their own Salvations no so humble a supplicant as true love the tender mother would beg it on her knees at her sons hand that he would reclaime and know his own good so St. Paul most humbly beseeches all that they would know their own good know the things that belong unto their own peace Now then we are Embassadors in Christ 2 Cor. 5.20 and 2.6 we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God And we then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vaine 2 Cor. 10.1 And Now I Paul my self beseech you by the meekness c. and gentleness of Christ c. To name one place more for all If there be therefore any Consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 if any comfort of love c. what would beg so hard for no other boone but onely that men would know the things that belong to their own peace but onely Love Fourthly See it in St. Pauls abundant thanks and prayers for those whom God hath vouchsafed to call unto the participation of his heavenly truth It is no small measure of love that makes him so sensible of others eternall good others that what were they to him but onely that they were the Sons of Adam so sensible as to be so abundant in thanks to God for that blessing unto them and in prayers to God for the continuance of it Most of

that weight value as to add the least grain of allowance or acceptance to this or any other the like performance yet being requested to deliver my opinion of it I could not but say thus much that the learned and pious Author hath herein at least to my apprehension approved himself * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2 8 a workman that needed not be ashamed yea * Cor. 3.10 a wise Master-builder in the Church of God as having very solidly and judiciously stated and asserted that grand fundamentall article the main pillar indeed of our Christian faith our Saviour Christs Resurrection the truth whereef he hath undeniably prov'd and demonstrated as well by invincible arguments and strength of reason as also clear and evident testimonies and texts of Scripture and that both for the further confirmation of all true Christians and the fuller conviction of all gainsayers whether Atheisticall Jewish or Hereticall Spirits And truly I do not remember to have seen so much Scripture and reason better improv'd in so narrow a compass nor more artificially enterwoven and twisted together and helping one another by a mutuall compliance for the strengthening and support of so substantiall a truth In a word I look upon the Treatise as verifying and performing exactly what it promises in the Title if not more It being a * most perfect and complete Demonstration Demonstratio potissima or rather a twofold Demonstration as Logicians distinguish the one proving the thing * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was so the other the finall cause or end * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why it was so the one cleering the truth and reality of it as in it self the other declaring the fruit and benefit of it as to believers the one in the former the other in the latter Point or Observation And in both these the Authour shows himself to have been a man singularly well skill'd both in the Theory and Practice of true Christianity of an able head and an honest heart of a strong brain and a gratious spirit The Doctrinall part of the Discourse being not more solid and sinewy in confirming the truth and settling and informing the judgment then the Practicall wholsom and savoury in speaking to the conscience and pressing holiness and purity of life and the power of godliness In which regard I heartily recommend the perusall of it to all good and sober Christians especially in these wavering warping and back-sliding times wherein so many have degenerated and * Turned Apostate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4.1 departed from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and * 2 Pet. 3.17 being led away with the errour of the wicked have fallen from their own stedfastness and I conceive for want of thorow conviction and sound instruction in these main fundamentall truths of the Gospel JAMES DUPORT READER I Wondred not when I met with those expressions of holy triumphing in Gregory Nyssen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nys Orat. 5. de Resur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id Orat. 1. de Resur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Hier. Catech. 14. let us extol the Resurrection of the Conqueror the joy of the world the life of all Nations since as he elegantly tells us the Divell our destroyer gaping to devour the bait of Christs flesh when he dyed was struck through and caught with the hook of Christs Divinity when he arose from the dead and as Cyril expresseth it he who by suffering was free among the dead by rising again manifested that he both could and would free the living The asserting of this blessed truth is the noble subject of this learned Treatise I wish I might have been allowed the secret tasting of its Divine delicacies without proclaiming to the world how well I rellish'd them and the rather because this excellent discourse is as far from wanting as are our slight pamphlets from deserving Commendation T is too low an Expression to say this work deserves my prayses worth of a middle size may be so commended I rather judg that my prayses are not worthy of it and may hope that my testimony will rather finde acceptance from it than it from my Commendation When first it came to my hands it found me in such a croud of business that I hardly could finde time to begin the reading thereof but truly when I had once begun to peruse it I as hardly knew how to make an end of reading till I came to the end of the book with such an honest delight did it rob me of the thoughts of my other employments and yet neither must I call it a robbery it was but a change and that an advantageous one for it brought me more benefit by its perusal than I parted with by forbearing for a time my other reading And reader I assure my self if thou art a friend to Christ and thy self thou canst not but with sweetest contentment view the Exaltation of thy dearest Lord and Master in his Resurrection and thereby thine own from the grave both of sin and earth so clearly and fully demonstrated The Authour of this Treatise I never knew and he is now above the resentment of earthly Commendations and therefore tentation I had none either by receiving or expecting any friendship from him to speak so freely of his book but might I dear Christian prevail with thee to read love and live the truths thereof all that good is succesfully obteyned which is I trust sincerely endeavoured by the testimony of thy servant for thy Souls good WILL. JENKYN Pastor of Black-fryers London Nov. 27. 1656. Christian Reader BEing desired to peruse this ensuing Treatise concerning the Resurrection of Christ and to expresse my thoughts of it though my testimony can adde nothing to the worth of it and very little to its acceptance in the world yet the excellent contexture of Scripture and reason which I have found in it requires me not onely to approve it but commend it The subject treated on is that of highest concernment the great pillar of our faith hope as the great Apostle argues 1 Cor. 15. and the maner of handling it is in good measure answerable to the weight and worth of its subject Some may possibly think that this great article of faith needs no Demonstration And I have sometimes been of that conceipt that some principles were so cleare they needed no confirming and some opinions so absurd they needed no confuting but I find my self deceived for in these dayes wherein our lot is fallen there is no truth so cleare and fundamentall but it meets with them that doubt it and deny it and no errour so ridiculous and unreasonable but finds them that will embrace and maintaine it Therefore I cannot but judge the publishing of this worke very seasonable both for confirming the faith of believers for faith despises not reason but

an horrid manner Thirdly They had a Vision of Angels that affirmed unto the women that he was risen and withall remembred them that it was but as he had told them before that he would rise again the third day and therefore they need not distrust it Fourthly They had after many corporall apparitions unto them of our Saviour himself and still you may observe there goes alwayes almost with the apparition some notable circumstance one or other to be an argument to confirme the verity of it as First for the apparition to Mary you have this observable circumstance that though Jesus had talked with her a while and she knew him not but thought he had been the Gardiner yet at the speaking of one bare word Mary she presently knew him and sayes Rabboni this was either a plaine effect of his Divinity so on the sudden to work on her heart or else of his humanity to speake just in that familiar form which he used when he was alive so that she knew him to be he by his voice The Divil may sooner counterfeit a visage then a voice Again for the apparition to the two Disciples by the way you have these two circumstances First Their hearts extraordinarily burning within them while he opened to them the Scriptures which argues his Divinity Secondly A speciall manifestation of himselfe unto them by breaking of bread using the same form of thanks-giving or same form of action in breaking or both which he used while he was alive and that argued the same humanity Again for the apparition to the Apostles when Thomas was absent you have two circumstances that are most demonstrative of a true living body First this handle me and see me for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have Then this Luke 24.41 Have ye here any meat c Though the Divell can form a body of the Elements a body that may be felt yet not true live body that can eat and digest meat not a true live body that hath flesh and bones that hath heat and pulse and all the temper of a true live body If this were so how should we be sure one of another that we are not fantasms Nay if handle mee and see me were not a good argument how were the Jews sure that it was the true Jesus that was Crucified the true Jesus that was laid in the sepulcher If they were sure they Crucified and buryed the true Jesus the Disciples were as sure that it was the true Jesus that rose again and appeared unto them And this is that circumstance which afterwards brought Thomas off from his infidelity when eight dayes after Christ appeared unto them John 20.28 Thomas being with them and thrust his hand into his side and said my Lord and my God And this is so strong an argument that S. Peter cares for no more Act. 10.41 He shewed himself openly not to all the people but to chosen witnesses even to us who did eat and drinke with him after he rose from the dead he did eat and drinke with them most familiarly and sensibly conversed with them even as familiarly and sensibly as when he was alive so that if we were sure of him then we are as sure of him now And this is the argument S. John beats so on That which we have heard which we have seene with our eyes c. 1 John 1.1 Consider now further that this was forty dayes together that he thus at severall times conversed with them that all his speech at those times with them was not about such things as the speech of a deceiving Divell would have been but of the things pertaining to the Kingdome of God Act. 1.3 of the things whereby the Apostles afterwards destroyed every where the Kingdome of the Divels and their Idolatrous worship Consider also that the Disciples were so incredulous formerly of the Resurrection that the words of the women that told them he was risen seemed to them idle tales Luke 24.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that also our Saviour upbraided them with unbeliefe and hardness of heart that they believed not them namely the women and the two Disciples and Peter which had seene him after he was risen That Thomas also for all that the other Disciples averred it unto him yet he would believe none of them all hee would believe nothing but his own hands and fingers would these men therefore that were so hard of beliefe would ever they have believed such a thing without most infallible proofes as it is Act. 1.3 To whom he should himself alive after his passion by most infallible proofes c. and therefore neither were they deceived but knew well enough what they said when they answered the High Priests and rulers of the Jews straightly charging them to speake no more of Jesus and the Resurrection with a Non possumus wee cannot but speak the things which wee have seene and hoard Act. 4. 20. If therefore they could neither bee deceived nor deceivers there is weight enough in those words this Jesus hath God raised up whereof wee are all witnesses and again they urge it Act. 2.32 Act. 3. Act. 5. Act. 10. The testimony therefore of these eye-witnesses is in the second place assurance enough unto us of Christs Resurrection Thirdly the testimony of the Spirit which Christ after his Resurrection and ascension sent down from Heaven to be a powerfull witnesse unto the world of his Resurrection by giving unto his extraordinary grace of holiness extraordinary grace of preaching the Gospel extraordinary grace of confirming it by miracles extraordinary grace of a happy successe in the busines to draw in so short a time almost the world after them these things shew that Christ was not in the power and hands of death but sate down at the power and right hand of his Father It is plaine a King is not in hold by his enemies when every where he does such things that makes the world ring of him as plain that Christ was not deteined in hold by that enemy death when every where by the Spirit which he sent he did such things as made the whole world ring of him Whence first had the Apostles and Apostolicall men that extraordinary grace of preaching the Gospel but onely from fulfilling that promise in Act. 1.8 ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem c. Hence had they their extraordinary grace of promptness grace of diligence grace of sincerity grace of patience grace of tenderest love and affection after the Salvation if they could of every Soul First The grace of boldness whence could they have it but from that power of the Holy Ghost coming upon them How timorous and white liver'd otherwise they were their running all away when their Master was apprehended their hardiest mans I meane Peters denyall of him at the speech of a silly

his Epistles begin with these thanks and prayers First Rom. 1.8 1 Cor. 1.4 Ephes 1.15 Phil. 1.3 Col. 1.3 1 Thes 1.2 I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken thorowout the world And I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe for the grace of God which is given by Jesus Christ Fifthly See it in St. Pauls grieved spirit when at any time men declined and went backward in the way of grace Out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears And who is weake and I am not weake 2 Cor. 2.4 who is offended and I burn not 2 Cor. 11.29 And I feare lest when I come among you my God shall humble me among you and that I shall bewaile many that have sinned already 2 Cor. 12.21 Sixthly See it in St. Pauls recomforted and revived spirit again at the good news of the mens thriving and prospering in the way of grace 2 Cor. 7.4 I am filled with comfort I am exceeding joyfull in all our tribulation And 1 Thes 3.7 When Timotheus came from you we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distresse by your faith And so St. John 3 John 4. I have no greater joy then to heare that my children walke in truth Seventhly See it in St. Pauls unmercenariness so far that he is willing yea glad very glad to spend and to be spent for mens Salvations yea those that the more abundantly he loves them the lesse perhaps he may be beloved again I seeke not yours but you And I will very gladly spend my wordly means if I had any and be spent quite exhaust forth strength and spirits in laborious endeavours for you 2 Cor. 12.15 Eighthly See it in St. Pauls willingness not thus to spend goods and strength and spirits but even life it selfe for mens Salvations being affectionately desirous of you 1 Thes 2.8 and in the second to the Philippians Phil. 2.17 he raiseth this willingness to dy for others Salvations into a joy to dy for them Yea and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith I joy and rejoyce with you all Ninthly See it in St. Pauls willingness not onely to dy for mens Salvations but to be withheld for a while from fellowship with Christ in his glory for the furtherance of others in their Salvations Phil. 1.23 24. and 25. I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you c. He must needs love much that having been in the third Heavens and having had so many revelations of Christ yet makes it a strait and a hard choice whether to chuse whether to be with Christ in blisse or with poor lost men in misery for hope of his Salvation Tenthly See it in St. Pauls willingness not onely to be withheld a while from the fellowship of Christ in his glory but to be accursed for ever from this fellowship of Christ in his glory for that is his meaning to be accursed from the fruition of his glory not of his love I say the truth in Christ Rom. 9. ● 2 3. I lye n●t my conscience also bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost That I have great heavinesse and continuall sorrow in my heart For I could wish that my self were accursed from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh How serious and unfained how ponderous and weighty his wish is that it must needs be no lesse then his eternall perishing from Christ for their Salvations his so solemne and sacred attestations and protestations show I say the truth I lye not c. Whence now thinke you could St. Paul have this grace of tenderest love and affection to others Salvation discovering it self in his such sollicitous holy care and feare about them in his so studious diligence to edify by all means that he could devise every Soul in the way of Salvation c Whence but onely from the power of the holy Ghost And now by this time if you consider all these the grace of extraordinary boldness of extraordinary promptness of speech and wisdome c. that showed themselves in the Apostles and first preachers of the Gospel you may know why the Apostle should say I would that yee knew what great conflict I have for you Col. 2.1 and for them of Laodicea and for as many as have not seene my face in the flesh Why for as many as had not seene his face in the flesh Why because they that by Pauls corporall presence among them had but experience of his holy boldness in the Lord of his promtpness of speech and wisdome in the Lord of his unspeakeable pains and diligence in the Lord c. they that thus saw his face in the flesh knew all his heavenly carriage and consolation in the Lord and in the word of his truth they could not but be exceedingly perswaded of the certainty thereof so full of arguments was St. Pauls face his bodily presence and conversation in the Lord to perswade unto the certaine beliefe of the Gospel which he preached And hereupon it is from these arguments in his face especially that he saith If our Gospel be hid 1 Cor. 4.3 it is hid to them that perish and that at his time of departure out of the world he remembers Timothy of these arguments especially in his face But thou hast fully knowne my doctrine manner of life 2 Tim. 3.10.14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned knowing of whom thou hast learned them viz. of him that hath made them good by so many good arguments in his face O that our people could but see thus arguments in our faces to confirme them in the truth of the Gospel But alas our faces our faces are the confusion rather and confutation of the Gospel then the confirmation of it rather enough to make infidels then converts rather enough to offend the strong then to strengthen the weak If the Gospel were now to be planted again all the miracles in the world I think would not make it take while our moralls are that they are A miracle may strike a little wonderment at first but good morality it sinkes it soakes to the heart perversness may fay a miracle is from the Divel but who can say that good morality is from the Divel I meane Universall good morality for otherwise the Divel and his doctrine may have a shred of morality a little good morality neare the list but he is never good thorowout the whole cloath as 't were the whole body of morality Chrys in 1 Cor. Hom. 3. and 6. but feele him a little farther neere the rig and you shal see the Divell to be the Divell for all his good morality near the list Secondly whence had the